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- March 31
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- MusicRadar hands-on: ROLI Blocks
- TC Electronic unveils Vacuum compact kill switch pedal
- Spitfire Audio’s BT Phobos ‘polyconvolution’ synth lets you morph sounds in ‘sextrillion’ ways
- UVI’s Rotary plugin is designed to put a new spin on the Leslie speaker
- 10 of the best-value used amp heads
- Musikmesse 2017: Mooer announces Tender Octaver Pro, Mod Factory Pro, Baby Bomb 30 and Red Truck pedals
- 5 minutes alone: Sting
- Musikmesse 2017: D'Addario releases Balanced Tension Nickel Bronze acoustic and NYXL pedal steel guitar strings
- Have Retronyms and Cycling ‘74 created “the ultimate looper” for iOS?
- March 30
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- Musikmesse 2017: D'Addario debuts mini Chromatic Pedal Tuner
- This new plug ‘n’ play kit lets you create your own robotic band
- Me and my guitar: Zach Myers
- Suhr releases Classic JM Pro guitar with “sleeker, more refined body shape”
- Robert Trujillo on his bass journey with Metallica: "I’ve always felt challenged"
- Bitwig Studio 2.1 has been confirmed and you can already sign up to beta test it
- March 29
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- Classic album: Darude on Before The Storm
- Joyo rolls out the Pedal Carpet, the world's lightest pedalboard
- Black Saint: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- Musikmesse 2017: Radial releases LX-2 passive line splitter and attenuator
- Musikmesse 2017: Korg’s Kronos LS has a lighter keyboard and carries less weight
- Steel Panther's Lexxi Foxxx: my top 5 tips for sexy bass playing
- Moog discontinues the Minimoog Voyager XL synth
- March 28
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- Blast from the past: Akai MPC60
- Will the Lolly 3D iOS microphone lick the competition?
- Dr No unveils Troy Van Leeuwen Raven Filter & Boost pedal
- The Workshop: drilling and riveting a cymbal
- VirSyn’s BandShift promises a new approach to realtime pitch shifting on iOS
- John Paul White on making his first album since The Civil Wars: "I didn’t know if I would do this again"
- March 27
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- Korg Gadget for Mac is now available to buy, and the iOS version is half price
- Zeds Dead's DC on producing their debut album and striving for that human feel
- Watch Voyager's Scott Kay deliver a prog-metal tour de force in Ascension guitar playthrough
- Go behind the scenes at Bastl Instruments in a new documentary
- Dave Mustaine names himself as one of the “fantastic four” of rhythm guitar
- Sinevibes’ new Corrosion distortion plugin looks clean but sounds filthy
- On the radar: Broncho
- March 24
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- MusicRadar hands-on: Electro-Harmonix Canyon delay & looper pedal
- Framus announces “all-massive” Nashville Legacy dreadnought acoustic guitars
- Test your distortion detection skills in a new SoundGym listening game
- Historic hardware: the story of the Gibson SG
- Line 6 releases Spider V 240HC amp head with built-in speaker
- NUSofting release Bit Fluzer, a free two-channel bitcrushing plugin
- Calvin Harris shows you how he recorded Slide in his DAW
- March 23
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- Me and my guitar: Tosin Abasi
- Watch Fit For An Autopsy's Will Putney rip on Black Mammoth guitar playthrough
- NI’s Form synth has just got new features and presets
- Musikmesse 2017: Zylia promises to let you make “studio quality” multitrack band recordings with a single microphone
- Slaves' Laurie Vincent on Take Control, Mike D and his mammoth guitar rig
- Hyve is a “fun and expressive” portable synth that can be played on a touch interface
- PRS's vintage-inspired 57/08 guitar pickups are now available to buy
- Fender Custom Shop pays tribute to session legend Bob Bain with 'Son of the Gun' Telecaster guitar
- March 22
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- FREE VST/AU analogue-style limiter: Venomode Maximal 2 CM
- Computer Music – THE DROP! – issue 242
- 10 questions for sleepmakeswaves' Otto Wicks-Green
- Kyle Gass: the 12 records that changed my life
- Steel Panther's Stix Zadinia: my 10 essential drum albums
- Me in my studio: Astronomyy
- Magix Music Maker is now available for free
- WIN! A pair of Dynaudio PRO LYD-8 monitor speakers worth £1190
- Walrus Audio upgrades Jupiter Fuzz pedal to V2 specs
- March 21
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- Watch this lumberjack guitarist deliver killer chops with his axe guitar
- Make your guitar throb in time with Rainger FX's Deep Space Pulsar mini pedal
- Here's why the new iPad could be the one that music makers have been waiting for
- Could AudioThing’s Outer Space plugin be the best Roland Space Echo emulation yet?
- 12 of the best analogue saturation plugins
- The story of Fender's iconic Tweed guitar amps
- Bring Me The Horizon's Matt Kean on his bass history and the band's unstoppable rise
- Accusonus’s ERA-R lets you remove unwanted reverb with a single knob
- March 20
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- Read Brian May's heartfelt tribute to Chuck Berry's guitar genius
- Depeche Mode's Martin Gore: my favourite music software
- RockBoard invites you into its Power Pit with new screen-equipped pedal power supply
- Ray Luzier talks sold-out tours, hit albums and the secret to killing it onstage with Korn and KXM
- Joyo drops Ironman Ironloop mini looper pedal
- Monster Truck's Jeremy Widerman: the 10 records that changed my life
- One for the road: Mick Box (Uriah Heep)
- On the radar: Reigning Days
- Meet the programmers: SampleScience
- March 19
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- March 17
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- PRS introduces Exotic Top option for SE guitars
- SampleRadar: 253 free gangster sting samples
- Watch Guthrie Govan play an unbelievable solo one-handed while drinking a glass of water
- Fink on guitar gear, production tricks and the challenges of making an authentic modern blues record
- Francesco Tristano on making the move from classical to electronic music
- Fender Custom Shop celebrates 30th anniversary with documentary and 8 Founders Design guitars
- UVI’s BeatHawk 2 update adds power and flexibility to the mobile music production app
- Grindstone Audio Solutions releases Nightshade Overdrive and Reveal Boost pedals
- New free EQ plugin promises precise and musical processing
- Togu Audio Line’s TAL-Dub delay plugin is reborn as TAL-Dub-X
- March 16
- March 15
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- FaltyDL talks gear, blueberry hills and feeding his creativity
- Gibson's Les Paul-inspired watch costs more than a Les Paul
- Pioneer DJ’s Toraiz SP-16 now offers integration with Splice Sounds
- Behringer is planning 20 new instruments, with an ARP 2600 emulation very high on the list
- Bad Religion's Greg Graffin: the 10 records that changed my life
- Output’s Analog Strings promises “unique and cutting-edge” strings sounds
- 10 questions for Albert Lee
- New SSL channel strip and Moog multimode filters come to the UAD platform
- Radial unveils North-Star overdrive and power booster pedal
- Explore an ocean of sound on your iPhone or iPad with Seaquence
- March 14
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- PRS taps reclaimed exotic woods for Limited CE 24 & S2 Vela Semi-Hollow guitars
- Rig tour: Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis
- Dave Smith Instruments ends development of its Tempest drum machine
- 15 effects pedals that will change the way you play guitar
- This plugin emulation of the Roland Juno-60’s chorus effect can be yours for free
- March 13
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- Calling audio zombies! Are you ready for some audio horror stories?
- Lusine’s top 10 tips for producers
- Patten on their influences and the concept behind the latest album, Psi
- LayR synth promises big, multi-layered sounds on your iPhone or iPad
- Add seasoning to your sounds with the Aroma effect plugin
- On the radar: Beware Of Darkness
- Coated vs uncoated guitar strings: can you hear the difference?
- March 10
- March 9
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- DJ and producer Chris Liebing explains how techno differs from EDM
- Issue 316 of Future Music is on sale now
- Ernie C talks Bloodlust, producing Black Sabbath and 25 years of Body Count
- Secret Cinema on modular creativity, collabs and in-depth studio geekery
- Brent Hinds and Ben Weinman on defying definition and expectation with Giraffe Tongue Orchestra
- You can now download VST/AU Jupiter-8 and Juno-106 plugins from the Roland Cloud
- Strymon's Sunset Dual Overdrive pedal gives you “the best of the best classic overdrive circuits”
- March 8
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- 10 of the best new sample and soundware packs (March 2017)
- 10 questions for Six Organs Of Admittance's Ben Chasny
- MusicRadar hands-on: Squier Affinity Series Jazzmaster HH & Bullet Mustang HH
- Guitar legend Steve Stevens on 12 career-defining records
- Pat Mastelotto talks 40 years at the top and triple drumming with King Crimson
- Fender releases mahogany Paramount models and 11 affordable Classic Design acoustic guitars
- ROLI’s Dashboard beta means that you can now use Blocks to control your DAW
- Ableton asks artists to tell you the ‘One Thing’ they do to keep their creativity flowing
- Exclusive Kaz Rodriguez drum lessons
- March 7
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- Walrus Audio unveils Warhorn Mid-Range Overdrive pedal
- X Japan's Yoshiki: the 10 records that changed my life
- Now you can explore Roland and Boss’s classic gear museum in your browser
- Nergal’s top 5 tips for guitarists
- Talking Shop: London Modular Alliance
- Overdrive goes modular with Lightning Boy II tube-powered pedal
- March 6
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- New drum gear of the month: review round-up (March 2017)
- David Crosby on his favourite acoustic guitars, alternate tunings and solo album Lighthouse
- Radial launches Texas-Pro overdrive and clean booster pedal
- Hear the stories behind some of rock’s most iconic images
- On the radar: Waterparks
- Inear Display’s Litote promises complex granular processing in a simple interface
- March 3
- March 2
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- Tim Green’s top 10 tips for producers
- Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol keyboards just got a little smarter
- Scott Stapp on joining supergroup Art Of Anarchy, Scott Weiland's legacy and creating The Madness
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (March 2017)
- Can Audified’s TNT Voice Executor give you quick and effective all-in-one vocal processing?
- March 1
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- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (March 2017)
- MusicRadar hands-on: DOD Carcosa Fuzz & KHDK Scuzz Box pedals
- Win a Positive Grid BIAS Distortion Pro pedal
- Warwick releases Lee Sklar Custom Shop Masterbuilt Bass I
- This innovative electric guitar features modular pickups, reversible hardware and a built-in stand
- 10 questions for Jamie Lenman
- Exponential Audio’s R4 reverb plugin “outdoes all the classics”
- Focusrite squares up to the iOS recording market with the iTrack One Pre